thiserror VS chumsky

We can utilize third-party libraries to simplify the code above. For example thiserror (https://github.com/dtolnay/thiserror) provides convenien derive macro for Error trait:

thiserror crate makes it easy to do so using macros on CliError enum.

Depending on your use case, thiserror and/or anyhow.

What is the benefit of splitting a proc-macro crate into (usually) two crates, proc_macro_crate and proc_macro_crate_impl? Why not just have one crate? Does it offer any benefits to to overall compilation times? An example of this can be seen in the thiserror crate where there's a thiserror and thiserror_impl crate.

You might want to use thiserror to generate implementation for Error and Display.

thiserror for my error types.

thiserror - https://crates.io/crates/thiserror

I dont think you realize how ridiculous this comment is. Youre comparing 10 lines of Go, with 200 of Rust:

https://github.com/dtolnay/thiserror/blob/master/src/lib.rs

There are crates out there that help you reduce this boiler plate. thiserror is good for creating custom errors and color-eyre or anyhow are good for dynamic errors.

I attempted to use this but was disheartened but the fact that it doesn't statically type node names. Tree Sitter doesn't either but it has much more of an excuse given that it targets C.

https://github.com/lezer-parser/lezer/issues/8

The dev seems mildly hostile to outside involvement too, so I moved on. These days I use Chumsky which is Rust rather than Typescript, but also way more awesome, if you can deal with the often incomprehensible compilation errors at least!

https://github.com/zesterer/chumsky

there’s also chumsky: https://github.com/zesterer/chumsky

We are using technique called parser combinator. And we are using a library chumsky to write parser combinators.

rust-langdev has a lot of libraries for building compilers in Rust. Perhaps you could use these to make your implementation easier, and revisit it later if you want to build things from scratch. I'd suggest logos for lexing, LALRPOP / chumsky for parsing, and rust-gc for garbage collection.

The examples that come with chumsky and the chumsky tutorial and guide all define their parsers using closures.

Parser: https://crates.io/crates/chumsky

chumsky's zero-copy rewrite has reached its first alpha release, and I have migrated my pep-508 parser to it, as suggested in my last announcement.

On my side, nom is still advancing well and a new major version is in preparation, with some interesting work a new GAT based design inspired from the awesome work on chumsky, that promises to bring great performance with complex error types. 2023 will be fun for parser libraries!

I am using chumsky because I like the API, but it doesn't support zero copy at the moment. Although efficiency is good to have, it is not my primary good. This will probably get supported once chumsky implements support for it (see upstream issue).

Checkout https://github.com/zesterer/chumsky or https://github.com/rust-bakery/nom